Hey hun, your still young and have a ways to go yet. I wasn't treated for 35 years and has landed in the gutter umpteen times too many. I was an A honor student in high school with a 3.4 GPA in the first 2 years of college. Then it was over. I did feel robbed. You still have a whole life in front of you. You've got a chance just by knowing that I never had. I'm a self employed interior designer that manages to get by today. I'm successfully surviving the best way I know how. You can still be anybody that you want to be. Don't let your illness dictate your life. There are plenty of successful and some famous bipolar affected individuals in the world, you can still be one of them.